Soft green tones transform this banknote into a meeting place between Guatemala’s ancient heritage and its modern national institutions, where Mayan symbolism and civic architecture coexist across a layered visual landscape.

Design & Symbolism

Obverse

The obverse combines the portrait of President and General José María Orellana with a stylized temple filled with Mayan glyphs, a flying quetzal bird, Mayan numeral symbolism, and traditional registration devices. Geometric elements and pre-Columbian motifs create a composition where state authority and ancestral cultural memory intersect through a distinctly Guatemalan visual language.

Reverse

The reverse assembles an intricate cultural panorama featuring a standing Mayan figure and glyphs from the Leyden Plate, the headquarters building of the Bank of Guatemala in Guatemala City, a circular carving from Tikal, trees, and Mayan symbolic elements. Together these details create a visual dialogue between archaeological inheritance and modern institutional continuity.

Collector’s Insight

For collectors, this note reflects a period when Guatemala increasingly integrated Mayan artistic traditions into contemporary banknote design, creating a compelling intersection between ancient civilization and national state imagery within one of Central America’s most recognizable currency series.

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